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Gold-Dusters Lead
—Daliy Colltfitn photo by Marty Schcrr
UP IN THE JUH go the legs of Let? Cunningham on the parallel bars during the intermission warm
up in la*-t night's Eastern Gymnastic’s preliminaries at Recreation HalL The Lion sophomore fin
ished a surprising fourth on the p-bars and leads teammate Jay Werner in the all-arounds going
into todav.s finals. This afternoon’s session starts at 1:30.
Sophomore Duo Almost Certain
To Win Ist Two All-Around Spots
"It looks like we'll have a one-two in the all-around." Penn State's expert gym Coach Gene!
Wettstone commented last night after the preliminaries of the EIGL tournament had been concluded!
at Recreation HalL
Wettstone was talking about his versatile sophomot~ duo. Lee Cunningham and Jay
who hold commanding leads in the all-around competition with only the free exercise event
ing on the program. Cunningham, * * ★
leads the seven-man field with
2263 points and his teammate is
only 13 points behind. Heintz
Briegcl of Massachusetts, is a' far
distant third with 1136 markers.
"It's almost certain that we’ll
take the first two places (in the
All-Around).” Wtttstone co n
tinued, "because the free exer
cise is the best event for both
Cunningham and Wemer.
“Cunningham was outstand
ing on the sidehorse and Wer
ner was only a few points be- \
bind (Tom) Darling (of Pill) on
the rings. They both looked
pretty sharp.
“I have really been surprised
with Jim Welsh of West Vir
ginia," the veteran gym mentor
went on. "1 just can’t believe
what he's done. He's in -fourth'
place in the all-around (with 1075:
points) and we didn’t even feel'
he had a chance.
•■(Walt) Dodge (of Syracuse),
has been the biggest disappoint-'
tnent. We figured he’d be way up
there in the all-arounds but he'
broke on the high bar and that!
tilled him." !
Only 4080 fans lurried out for !
Ihe three-hour ail air . . . but j
a larger crowd is expected for |
this afternoon's finals which >
begin at 1:30 o'clock . . . Tem- I
pie's Sian Chalis' score in the
side horse locked like some- f
thing you'd see on a Las Vegas j
slot machine ... all three ;
judges gave him a 73 . . . that | i J
totaled 21S and was just enough | . . J .
to give Chalis the eighth quali- j _____ JT
tying spot in the event . . .
The biggest point difference ** B ** B “ aß ™
among the judges came m Brie-I
pel’s still ring exhibition , . . two
, judges gave the Massachusetts
’star aO9 but their third contem- ... ... . . T . .
porarv, Mevers. scored a 38 for. 262-261. edge over the Lions
Briegei ' Graeme Cowan .. .
first place positions were dom-5 Darling. Werner and Bill Gial
jnated by Penn State and surpris- iourakis of Army thrilled the fans
ing Pitt . . . The Lions had five on the flying rings with double
firsts including Cunningham’s fly-away dismount .. . Werner’s
achievement in the all-arounds-'was by far the smoothest and
. . . the others were in the rope : most daring for it came at a great
climb. side horse, still rings, long.er height . . . Darling won the
horse . . the rival Panthers ; e vent with a 285 followed by Wer
elaimed three top slots—horizon- ner’s 278 with the Cadet man
tal bar. tumbling and flying rings-placing fourth . . . Darling’s 285
.. . the other first place was gar- score was greeted with mixed
nered by Army’s Captain Gar emotions by the . fans who felt it
O'Quinn" on the parallel bars . . . was too high . . .
Werner was a surprise com- Temple’s Martin Nayowith had
pelilor in the tumbling event the lowest score of the night with
... the dynamic soph placed 'a 45 on the horizontal bar ... he
fourth behind two teammates .fell off the bar just after his rou
,«nd a Pitt foe with 247 points tine had started . . . the slip
... Don Neeld of Pitt goes into forced him to withdraw from the
£w finals with a one-point ‘all-around competition.
THE DAfIY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
By LOU PRATO
Dave Dulaney
... it isn't over yet!
Qualifying
Results
ALL-AROUND—I. Cunningbun (Ps)
1!U: 2. Wtrner (PS> 1256; 3. Briegel
1136; 4. Welsh <WV) 1875: 5. Ray
(Temple) 1014; 6. Savudofc (PS) 940:!
7. Dodge (SYC) 910.
TUMBLING—I. Neeld (Pitt) 262; 2.
Cc»an (PS) 261: 3. Dulaney (PS) 2SB;
4. Werner (PS) 247; 5. Meier (SYC) 246:
6. Morrill (Army) 226; 7. Phltlips (Array)
226: h. Setter <SYC) 216.
SIDE HORSE— I. Cunningham (PS);
273; 2. O’Qvinn (Army) 265; 3. Sheppard
(Navy) 265; 4. Peterson (Spfld) 239:
5. Hill (Army) 255; 6. Hcfarlane (Navy)
251: 7. Clements (Army) 233; 8. Chatla
(Temple) 219.
HORIZONTAL BAR—I. MuWthill (Pitt)
272: 2. Darling (Pitt) 269; 3. Cunningham
<rS) 268: 4. Werner (PS) 260; 3. Degan
(Army) 253; 6. Small (Army) 250; 7.
Briegel <Mas<.) 248; 8. Eckert (Army) 237.
PARALLEL BARS—I. O’Quinn (Army)
273; 2. MeXatt (Navy) 264; 3. Canning
ham (PS) 252; 4. Breir*! (Masa.) 244:
5. Shims (Pitt) 244; 6. Welsh (WV) 240;
7. Parson (Army) 236; 7. Werner (PS)
236; 7. Lancaster (Army) 236.
ROPE CLIMB—I. MoUen (PS) 3.6 t. 2.
Degan (Array) 3.8; 2. Nechanser (PS)
3>; 2. Shipley (Sye) 3.8; S. Shull (Army)
4.0; 5. Hall (Syc) 4.0: 7. LitUewood (PS)
4.2: 8. Cohen (Army) 4.3; 8. W'heatley
(Navy) 4.3.
FLYING RINGS—I. Darling (Pitt) 255;
2. Werner (PS) 278; 3. Sidwell (PS) 249;
4. GiaUourakis (Army) 247: 4. Ray (Tem
ple) 247: 6. Donahue (PS) 241; 7. Recher
(Army) 239: 8. Bliteh (Array) 236.
LONG HORSE VAULT—I. Werner (PS)
283; 2. Briegel (Mass.) 263; 3. Dodge
(Syc) 254; 4. Savadove (PS) 253; 5. Welsh
(WV) 234; 6. Cunningham (PS) 233 ? 7.
Ray (Temple) 218.
STILL RINGS—I. Werner (PS) 2SS:
2. Ray (Temple) 237; 3. Cunningham (PS)
235; 4. Welsh (WV) 165; 5. BriegeMMass.)
176; 6. Dodge (Sye) 152; 7. Savadove (PS)
133.
Fomieola, Oberly
In YMCA Tourney
Two of Penn State’s greatest
I wrestlers, both of whom were
iLion captains and NCAA cham
pions—Larry Fomieola and BQJ
: Oberly—are entered in the State
YMCA wrestling tournament to
today at Bellefonte.
Fomieola. Lion captain and
137-pound eastern and national
champ in 1955, will represent the
Bellefonte “Y” club in the 167-
pound class. Oberly, eo-captain
along with Joe Krufka in 1956
and NCAA unlimited winner in
1955, will go at heavyweight for
the Easton “Y”.
The tournament will be held at
[the Bellefonte Junior High School
gymnasium. Preliminaries are
scheduled for 1 o’clock this after
noon and the finals for 8 o’clock
tonight i
All-Around
Pitt Surprises in Prelims
By Taking 3 First Places
(Continued from page one)
but didn't impress the judges as
much-
Probably the biggest surprise
in tumbling is Lion Jay Werner
who holds a fourth place with 247.
Werner never competed in tumb
ling during the regular season j
But he finished one point ahead of
last year’s tumbling champ, Low
ell Meier of Syracuse. I
From then on. it was Cun- ;
ningham who paced the field. ]
His first feat was a stunning de
feat of defending champion
Gar O'Quinn after the champ
had recorded a 269 score on
the side horse. With incom- ]
parable high leg scissors, the j
blond sophomore whizzed
through his best exercise of the
year and the judges recognized
it with a 275. All this after j
O'Quihn finished his 269 rou- j
tine that included form-perfect
leg circles.
The Navy slid into the top three
with Middle Fern Sheppard hit
ting for a 265.
With the win on the-side horse,
Cunningham took a 59-point lead
over his nearest
competitor in the
all-around team
mate Werner.
Werner, inc i -
dentally, failed
to qualify in the
top eight for to
day’s side horse
competition by a
three
mere
the only event in
.which he failed
to qualify for the
finals. He had a 216 and the
eighth qualifying score was a
219.
Werner,
remain-
Pitt dominated the high bar
with a first by Jim Mulvihill
who hit for his best routine of
the year, a 272. Three points
behind at 259 is another Pan
ther ace, Tom Darling. Just
one point behind the Panther
Darling and still holding an ex
cellent chance for a win on the
high bar is Cunningham with
a 268. The Philly flash lost out
—Daily Colltglaa phots by Marty Scharr
ONLY ONE POINT BEHIND in the fight for the Eastern tumbling
championship is Lion sophomore Graeme Cowan in flight. With a
261, Cowan is runner-up to Pitt’s Don Neeld, with teammate Dave
Dulaney within striking distance with 258.
Sport Shorts
Itching to Start Season Talked-About Frosh
Penn Joe Bedenk Most-talked-a bo u t basketball
is itching to get started on the ? I \ > ; er 1 ° r k th l^ Penn S J at^ ca f tt f u 2
mco r. u n ... . , is Mark DuMars, a standout last
1958 baseball campaign. His pitch- year en Sharon High School's
ers and catchers were outdoors State championship'team, who’s
while snow still covered the currently filling the same role on
ground. Now, he has issued his Lioiv freshinan five. Frosh
t „ ... coach Don Swegan thinks hell
first c#l for infield and outfield make the varsity grade a» a
candidates. sophomore.
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1958
on a point or two when he
touched the mat on his Giant
straddle flyaway. It cost him.
Only eight points behind Cun
ningham and twelve points' be
hind Mulvihill is the other Lion
ace, Werner. But the eight points
increased Cunningham’s lead over
Werner to 67. At the same time,
Cunningham virtually knocked
all the other performers out of
the race as the third place man,
Heins Briegel of Massachusetts,
was exactly 90 points behind af
ter only two of the six events.
Again Cunningham awed the
fans, and this writer, with by far
his best exercise of the year on
the parallel bars. It gave him a
third in the event with 252 points.
Only O’Quinn with a flawless 272
and Middie Ken McNutt with a
264 topped him. The upset gave
him his biggest lead of the night,
of 83 points, 795-712. Then Wer
ner started to cut into the lead,
until he eventually got it down
to the 13 points with firsts in the
still rings and long horse vault.
In the vault, Werner tied Pitt’s
Tom Darling with the highest
single score of the meet, a 97
from judge Louie Bordo.
The Darling-Werner flying
rings dual finally came off last
night, and what an exhibition.
The Eastern and National cham
pion completed his great rou
tine with his tightly tucked
double sommersaull flyaway
and got the highest score of ihe
meet, a 285. Then Werner got
into ihe flying act and although
he wasn't holding his.shoulder
and handstand with' perfection,
ho concluded the flight with a
soaring double sommy that he
parachuted out of four feet
above the mat.
Cunningham
Eddie Sidwell made it a sweep
of the top three positions for the
Panther-Lion combination with a
249.
The Lions qualified all three
rope climbers for today’s finals
with Phil Mullen and Vince Neu
hauser leading the .pack as ex
pected. Mullen has a :03.6 and
j Sophomore Neuhauser is dead
locked in second with Cadet Bob
Degen and Orangeman Mike
'Shipley at :03.8. '
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